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The Utility Industry Hand-Held and PDA Forum is a strategic meeting
of the minds organized to focus on the problems that Utility Industry
customers want solved and to bring together all parts of the Hand-
Held and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) industry to address mutual
needs realted to the Utility Industry. The Forum will feature
discussions led by major utility corporate users and suppliers of this
technology. |
| WHAT IT IS:
The Hand-Held and PDA EXPO is the next step in hand-held/PDA
market development after the Utility Industry Hand-held and PDA
Forum and the Forum on Hand-held Computing in Healthcare Series. |
| ENTERPRISE STRATEGY FOR HAND-HELDS - Customers are saving 25%
of costs on field form automation. Can hand-helds leverage workers,
get the company closer to the customer and lead to greater savings
through business improvement processes?
PILOTS TO ROLL-OUTS - A failed hand-held pilot project still leaves
the problem. Hear about successful pilot strategies.
UTILITY APPLICATIONS - (Specific) Dispatch, field inspections, time
and materials, gas line extensions, corrosion control, leak detection,
fiber installations, substation management, pole maintenance and
more. (General) Email, mapping, GPS, data collection
MIDDLEWARE - New software systems used to cost millions. Is
middleware a cost saving solution to new technology adoption in
hand-held projects?
WIRELESS - What are the right Utility applications for wireless?
Wireless solutions today and tomorrow.
DATA CONNECTIVITY - Practical options for connectivity to back-end
databases. Wireline batch, information on demand and agent. |
| BACKGROUND:
Over the past three years our Forums have successfully
demonstrated that the vendor and customer communities can share
the risks and rewards of market development to reduce either their
cost of sale or purchase. Many of you have asked us to expand our
Forum concept to add technology and functional areas. We listened
and have created the Hand-Held and PDA EXPO. |
| Company is privately held and has experienced a 150% increase in sales!
! Benefits include medical, dental and life insurance, flexible spending
accounts, tuition reimbursement and 401(K) with company match. Company
ports its technology across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms
-- from hand-held devices and PCs to workstations, and is pursuing leading-
edge research and development projects for computer and telecommunications
applications. |
